On both the mouse clicks and keyboard when enabled the program wants a device specified. If I click on "search" I always get "no device found.".

Do I need to have a device specified to get the mouse click feature to work? What should the device entry look like? What would I need to do, compile, configure or add to my system to get the "search" feature to work?

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CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
X11_Xcursor_LIB (ADVANCED)
linked by target "recorditnow" in directory /home/kubuntu/Downloads/recorditnow-0.8/src

home/kubuntu/Downloads/recorditnow-0.8/src/cursorwidget.cpp:46:34: error: X11/extensions/shape.h: No such file or directory
/home/kubuntu/Downloads/recorditnow-0.8/src/cursorwidget.cpp: In member function ‘void CursorWidget::setMode(const CursorWidget::WidgetMode&)’:
/home/kubuntu/Downloads/recorditnow-0.8/src/cursorwidget.cpp:129: error: ‘ShapeInput’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kubuntu/Downloads/recorditnow-0.8/src/cursorwidget.cpp:129: error: ‘ShapeSet’ was not declared in this scope
/home/kubuntu/Downloads/recorditnow-0.8/src/cursorwidget.cpp:129: error: ‘XShapeCombineMask’ was not declared in this scope

The default bitrate of the recordmydesktop plugin on the encoding page of 45.000 is too low. With this setting, the produced video only had a few frames (3 frames or so, i mean different pictures, the video length is ok though).
After changing this setting to the maximum, i was able to create a screencast with more pictures.

Is the Testatur-monitor tied to the main window or can it be separated?

I would love to see something like the KWin effect showing the pressed shortcuts. Or plasmoid what we could place to panel and it could show the shortcuts (like Ctrl+Shift+A) on it. Then it could be placed to own panel what be placed top of windowses and get it been visible all the times without main window of this application!

As soon as Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is released (that is, at the end of April) I am going to test RecordItNow on it (I will work on the Gnome desktop).
I would like to translate its GUI into Italian, in order to send you the Italian strings :-)
Naturally, I am going to write you in case I find out some little bugs to fix.
Most of all, I am going to sponsor you the remaining part of my sponsorship for RecorditNow :-)
In the meantime, THANKS again for your work

It's ok, it seems it's because of the ATI graphics card. It doesn't provide hardware acceleration for libfb, which is what most desktop recorders use: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk-recordmydesktop/+bug/509111